Felix Delbruck wrote:

>Has anyone heard Schnabel in the Brahms concerti? By all accounts they
>were very much beyond him technically by the time he recorded them, but
>they may be interesting as interpretations.

The recording of Schnabel playing the Brahms Second figures in an old
(1949) movie called *Letter to Three Wives*.

One of the wives, Ann Sothern, a successful TV writer, is married to
Kirk Douglas, uncharacteristically cast as an idealistic school teacher
whose idealistic principles are understood neither by Sothern nor by her
sponsors represented by a woman dinner guest, to whom Sothern feels
beholden.  Douglas has just acquired the Schnabel/Brahms Second recording,
on shellac 78 rpm disks of course.  The sponsor guest carelessly breaks one
of the disks.  Douglas remarks, "I wish I could say it doesn't matter, but
it does."

Walter Meyer